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Places like Nottoway paved the way for 21st-century developers who use “plantation” to name residential enclaves, first with alluring architecture that distracts from the blood of the enslaved in the ...
The team has investigated other notable fires and bombings, including the Maui Wildfire Disaster, one of the U.S.'s deadliest ...
But on May 15, 2025, the largest surviving plantation mansion of them all burned to the ground, reportedly due to an ...
Last Thursday in White Castle, Louisiana, the Nottoway Plantation House, considered the largest antebellum mansion in the ...
The Nottoway Plantation fire has sparked a discussion on race and history, as well as mixed social media reactions since the ...
Last week, the nation’s largest antebellum mansion burned down in what authorities think was an electrical fire. After the ...
I'm from Louisiana, so my social media feeds have been filled with news about Nottoway Plantation-which was destroyed in a ...
Material history, including at places such as Nottoway, has messages for people studying Black history.
Authorities confirmed Wednesday that a body found last week in Nottoway County is that of Olene Brooks, 68, who officials say was abducted in January from her Amelia County home by her former son ...
Nottoway, the oldest and largest Southern plantation house burned down, sparking debates about erased history at the ...
Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South, where scores of ...
A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...